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... bring about the repeal of the Corn Laws. Incidentally, the lecturer referred to a etntereent made in 1883 by Mr Joseph Chamberlain, after allusion to the rejeery and the destitution which prevailed in the time of the Corn Laws, urged upon the people the ...
... now it remained really high for torn. Year. afterward*. brine SIM lid in and 744 gel in Me. and until the Tenetl of the Corn Laws in ISM there were only three tears in which the average , el l * lIRI 4 /Ir Indeed, th a restoration of peace to Europe the ...
... description of what Free Trade and Protection meant, at the Abingdon Corn Exchange on Monday last. His reference to the Corn Laws and to the distress that was prevalent in those days was certainly enough to prevent any man with a vote to use it for the ...
... entract had been entered into at nil, and Mr Lloyd George reminded those who used it of the fact that the defenders; of the Corn Laws had empl4.yed exactly the Slime argument, and that it reappeared quite recently in the United States as an argument against ...
... without freight; capital without investment, trade without profit. and farmers struggling under a system of high rents; corn laws to restrain the importation of food, and inducing a stareing people to regard the laws of their country with a deep of their ...
... once more rub up one hstory of those bad times before Mr Bright and Mr Cobden succeeded in Reamedlug Parliament that the corn laws were an inueritouss tax. At that time the whole of the lahotirer a in the agricultural districte were on th, verge of starvation ...
... decent, holiest and to bring up their children in it state op/operative (11trifort. •I'hen the hungry forties, I of the Corn Laws, and Arch's agitat• in 1872. In 1881 there were 983,410 labourers in this country, and in 1901 the number had fallen to 039 ...
... landlord. Proceeding. the speaker said the work. ing had been making progress front a time shortly after the repeal of the Corn Laws (hear. heart Having secured that the' more they were discontented, for they must remember that the contented man never made ...
... historic Wiltshire village where, in 1844, a midnight meeting of halfetarring agricultural labourers was held to denounce the Corn Laws. The miserable condition of those men, as related in their own rough dialect, created a profound impression throughout the ...
... two great epochs in his political career, via., the paseing of the Catholic Emancipation Act in Iteg, and the Repeal the Corn Laws in 1816. It was around them two great events that what lie had to nay that evening would ceutre. In reviewing Sir Robert ...
... Germany at. well. Tariff Reformers say. Well. you will benefit the farmer. would they? It was seen at the tines of the Corn Laws that directly the price of wheat went up. the landlord rase the rents of his tenant farmers. There were landlords to-day ...
... was bitter complaints ma e I Th e Rev 34)hu P at he was extreme l y dinery normal expenditure which the Comer- gainst the Corn Laws. In Wiitehire a meet- ' was held by the labour:nit people, who t to find some position, said th at of the yo men at Oxford ...